Lilia Shkuropat

A More Effective Way to Scale Your Consulting Business in 2025

How to scale a consulting business

Over 13 years in digital transformation consulting, MindK has seen many businesses born from the vast personal expertise of their founders. Take for example, Innmeldt, a Norwegian company that provides pension consulting services. Over the past 30 years, its advisors have helped thousands of people secure a happy and wealthy retirement. You’re probably using a A More Effective Way to Scale Your Consulting Business in 2025

5 Reasons Why Microservices Rule in 2025

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In 2021, Statista asked 950 organizations from all over the world for their opinion about microservices. Turns out, 85% of enterprises with over 5,000 employees use them already. 14% more are planning future adoption. This research suggests that larger businesses are more likely to see the value and become early adopters of microservices. Smaller businesses 5 Reasons Why Microservices Rule in 2025

Data in Digital Transformation: 3 Key Steps to Business Value

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Imagine you’re a foreman on a construction project in Florida. The sun is at its peak. Heavy beads of sweat are rolling down your forehead. In your hands, you’re holding the plans for a new shopping mall. It requires a massive list of materials – tons of concrete, miles of piping, and a container ship-worth Data in Digital Transformation: 3 Key Steps to Business Value

Low-Code SaaS Development: How to Accelerate the Speed of Development and Improve Productivity

Low-code SaaS development

As a CTO at a SaaS development company, I have to keep up with new trends in software engineering. For a long time, we’ve advised some of our clients to validate the market potential for their ideas with low-code SaaS development. But can you use it for something more than a simple Proof of Concept Low-Code SaaS Development: How to Accelerate the Speed of Development and Improve Productivity

No-Nonsense Guide to Outsourcing Your SaaS Development in 2025

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Some businesses plan to do all the work in-house. Others think about outsourcing SaaS development. Both approaches have their pros and cons. As a company that’s been building custom SaaS apps for the past 10 years, MindK knows everything there is to know about outsourcing. So here’s our straightforward guide to outsourcing your SaaS project. No-Nonsense Guide to Outsourcing Your SaaS Development in 2025

How to Reduce Cloud Costs for Your SaaS Application

How to reduce cloud costs

Those cases aren’t exceptions. From our experience at MindK, most SaaS companies waste about a third of their cloud spending, so learning how to reduce cloud costs is essential. Today, we’ll share some of the most efficient cloud cost optimization hacks from MindK’s DevOps engineers. Table of contents: Why cloud costs can be hard to How to Reduce Cloud Costs for Your SaaS Application

SaaS Developer: When, Where and How to Find This Species

Business acumen is one part of the formula. But building a SaaS app is not a job for a lone wolf. Every founder needs a great team of SaaS developers to get to the top of the food chain. But who do you have to have on such a team? A SaaS developer is a SaaS Developer: When, Where and How to Find This Species

Understanding the Technical Side of SaaS Application Development

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As a CTO at a software company, it’s a part of my job to follow the latest SaaS trends. In fact, most of the new projects we build at MindK use this approach. If you want to learn about SaaS application development, you’ve come to the right place. Today, I’ll explain the core concepts behind Understanding the Technical Side of SaaS Application Development

13 Project Management Best Practices When Outsourcing Software Development 

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If you think that is bad, wait until you learn about outsourced projects. Take, for example, Dun & Bradstreet’s Barometer of Global Outsourcing. It says that “20 to 25% of all outsourcing relationships fail within two years, and 50% fail within five”. Yet, some companies achieve a much higher success rate. I’ve been working as 13 Project Management Best Practices When Outsourcing Software Development 

10 Agile Best Practices for Remote Teams: Recalibrate Your Processes and Improve Efficiency

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It’s hard to replicate these little interactions when working remotely. I’ve been managing Agile teams for the past 7 years. First, as a project manager at an outsourcing company, later – as a certified Scrum Master. It’s my daily duty at MindK to coordinate teams across 11 time zones, schedule meetings in the rare hours 10 Agile Best Practices for Remote Teams: Recalibrate Your Processes and Improve Efficiency

Insurance Digital Transformation: 4 Emerging Business Models

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Research from McKinsey shows that insurance companies with advanced IT capabilities have a clear edge over competitors in cost ratios and agility. Digital leaders show 4x the growth above the industry average. And that are just some of the benefits of digital transformation in insurance. InsureTech is quickly becoming one of the fastest-growing FinTech sectors, Insurance Digital Transformation: 4 Emerging Business Models

Agile Software Development Consulting

4 signs you need Agile Your team is disengaged. With team members burning out and leaving, it’s hard to deliver the project on time and within budget. You have unexpected changes in your project budget. Budget overruns are the result of poor planning, a disorganized team, and an inability to respond to changes. Your product Agile Software Development Consulting